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Inspirations.
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Imagine Fashion
In a quest for expression and identity, artists make imaginative worlds visible and preserve fleeting moments of beauty.

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Designers & Makers
There is a focus again on making things with creativity and quality. A new generation of makers, artisans and designers look at new ways of working and making.

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The Bauhaus Revolution
The Bauhaus: it's People, Politics, Art, Design and Architecture.

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Superwall
SUPERWALL is the wall for the latest and greatest in visual art. Our focus is on the visceral, the sublime, the surprising, the profound, and the accidentally found.

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DESIGN DIY
The design process has to become circular. DESIGN DIY is changing the way we create our living and working spaces and makes us rethink production, consumption, and the way we live ...

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House Now
Does contemporary architecture make us feel at home?

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New Design Materials
Balloons or recycled fiber for fashion, wood chip resins made into lightweight foam for chairs, recycled plastic extruded by a robot: New materials and what can be done with them -...

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Generative Art
Art, videos and music created with algorithms. Post your demos, videos, music pieces and images of generative art. Or use the generative design tools here in penccil to create amaz...

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BRUTALISM
BRUTALISM is a magazine of remarkable architecture. Brutalist architecture combines early modernist ideas with post-war rationality. Usually built in concrete, brutalist structures...

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The Elements in Design
Artists, designers and architects work with the elements of nature.

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Marqueterie
A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...
Paris
Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi
Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019
For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...
Digital Biology
Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...
Charles Tassin
Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...
Le Drugstore Brand Identity
Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...
Franz Kline
Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...
Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...
The Menu
The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...
Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni
Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...
A Flat Named Desire
An inspirational collection of interior objects.
Jean Lurçat
Jean Lurcat, painter, poet and ceramicist, great renovator of contemporary French tapestry, produced...
Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work
There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...
Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture
A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.
Struth: Nature & Politics
Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...
In Orbit
"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...
Eric Giraudet de Boudemange
Eric Giraudet de Boudemange (1983) graduated in 2007 from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris ...
Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...
The Glass House
"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...
Francois Morellet 1926 - 2016
Since he first began making work in the 1950s, Morellet has been engaged in creating work which has ...
Design & Politics
Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...
Xavier Antin: Printing at Home
A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process.
Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...
BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/D" design Enzo Mari
DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron and Murano Glass Vase, Limited Edition of 6, numbered and signed by th...
BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/A" design Enzo Mari
DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron fruit-bowl Limited Edition of 4, numbered and signed by the Author Enz...
BASILE ARTECO "Monoblocco/L" design Donata Paruccini
DESIGN DONATA PARUCCINI: pen holder
Jean-Jaques Lequeu
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...
Rayan Ayash
Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.
Amor Vacui
Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.
Carreaux
Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.
Slimane
Hedi Slimane was the creative director for Dior Homme. He is currently creative director for Saint L...
Small Buildings
Photographer Eric Tabuchi, born 1959, lives and works in Paris.
The end of history - La fin de l´histoire
"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...
Tamara
Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...
Royère
Jean Royère (1902-1981) worked in the import-export business before working for cabinetmaker Pierr...
Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler
“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...
Harrison and Abramovitz
Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, who worked independently in New York in a partnershi...
Conformity
“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...
Alain Georges Frank Jacquet
Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...
Télémaque
Hervé Télémaque naît à Port-au-Prince, le 5 novembre 1937. En 1957, il quitte Haïti pour New Y...
A+A Cooren
A+A Cooren is a Paris-based French-Japanese design studio founded in 1999 and run by husband and wif...
Mass, space, plane and line
"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...
Serge Mouille
Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...
Damien Coupeté images
paintings
Pascal Häusermann
Pascal Häusermann was born 19th of November 1936 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied at the School of...
Janine Abraham & Dirk Jan Rol
Janine Abraham took classes at the Ecole Camondo, trained at Jean-René and Maxime Old Caillette, an...
Orange mecanique
Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...
Excentrique/Beware
Daniel Buren : Excentrique, work in situ, Grand Palais, Paris, 2012. Text: Daniel Buren, excerpts fr...
André Bloc - Sculptures Habitacles
From 1962 to 1966, André Bloc created his habitable sculptures. This work marks the evolution of th...
Eleni Karpatsi & Julio Calvo = (fos)
Eleni Karpatsi and Julio Calvo are (fos), working in the fields of architecture and interior design ...
Charles Negre
Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.
Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler was born in Vienna in 1923 as son of Rose and Max Seidler. Rose was able to pursue her...
L´Imparfaite by VLF
VLF studio is Thomas Cristiani and Antoine Roux in Paris.
Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker
Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...
Domestique
Face à une appropriation sous contrôle et une perte progressive des mécanismes d'interaction entr...
Voiture
C´est un travail sur l´expérience et l´émotion du passager dans une voiture d´un futur proche,...
ice
Ice hotels in Norway, Finland and Sweden
France 1661
Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661
Antonio Sant´Elia: The house of concrete, glass and steel
"No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture of the most various stylistic elements us...
Gio Ponti, Architetto
Gio Ponti (born Nov. 18, 1891, Milan, Italy—died Sept. 15, 1979, Milan) graduated in 1921 from the...
Technological Exaptation
Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...
Parisian Still Lifes
Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.
Absalon: Cellules
Cellules d'habitation: 6 residential modules of 9 square metres, designed to fit in 6 major cities (...
Urban Robot: The early works of 伊東 豊雄 Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄) was born 1 June 1941 in Seoul, Korea to Japanese parents. In 1943, he moved...
Softer
Softer than Steel: Nendo for Desalto.
Le Corbusier: Original Interiors
A selection of original interiors by Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier).
Volkswagen Jetta
Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...
Naturoscopie
Habité par un héritage de l’art nouveau, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance s’appuie non seulement sur l...
White Rooms
Photographer Wouter Hogendorp from Den Haag documents the beauty of architectural details: light, th...
Hans Poelzig: Architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk
Architect Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936) was an eclectic visionary. He worked with sculptural effects,...